Dr. Timothy R.B. Johnson: How abortion crackdown risks more lives

12:05 AM,
Aug. 24, 2013

Timothy R. B. Johnson

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Dr. Timothy R.B. Johnson
Detroit Free Press guest writer

In 1972, a visionary physician I knew named J. Robert Willson was one of 100 obstetricians and gynecologists who recognized that the coming legalization of abortion would pose a major challenge to U.S. society.

They signed a groundbreaking Statement on Abortion in the respected American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, warning of "an imminent problem of rather staggering proportions" and calling on their peers nationwide to take action right away.

They were both right and wrong about what was coming. They thought the issue would be one of hospital capacity in beds, space and ...